Sir St John Brodrick, of

Midleton Midleton (; , meaning "monastery at the weir") is a town in south-eastern County Cork, Ireland. It lies approximately 16 km east of Cork City on the Owenacurra River and the N25 road, which connects Cork to the port of Rosslare. A satellit ...

(3 December 1627 – January 1711) was an Irish

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. He represented

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in the

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from 1692 to 1693 and from 1695 to 1699. He was the son of Sir Thomas Brodrick, of

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, by his wife Katherine, daughter of Robert Nicholas, of

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. Through her mother Katherine was granddaughter of Nicholas St John, of

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, and first cousin of

Sir John St John, 1st Baronet Sir John St John, 1st Baronet (5 November 1585 – 1648) of Lydiard Tregoze in the English county of Wiltshire, was a Member of Parliament and prominent Royalist during the English Civil War. He was created a baronet on 22 May 1611. Biography ...

. By his wife Alice Clayton he was father of (among others): * Thomas Brodrick (1654–1730) *

Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton, PC (Ire) (c. 1656 – 29 August 1728) was a leading Irish lawyer and politician who sat in the Parliament of Ireland between 1692 and 1715 and in the British House of Commons from 1717 to 1728. He was Speake ...

(c.1656–1728) *

St John Brodrick William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton, KP, PC, DL (14 December 185613 February 1942), styled as St John Brodrick until 1907 and as Viscount Midleton between 1907 and 1920, was a British Conservative and Irish Unionist Alli ...

(1659–1707)

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* 1627 births 1711 deaths Politicians from County Cork Irish MPs 1692–1693 Irish MPs 1695–1699 18th-century Irish people Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cork constituencies {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub